GHC vs. SCI, TAL, EDU, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, AFYA, PRDO, UDMY, and HTZ
Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Service Co. International (SCI), TAL Education Group (TAL), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Udemy (UDMY), and Hertz Global (HTZ). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Graham vs.
Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) and Graham (NYSE:GHC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Service Co. International presently has a consensus price target of $88.50, suggesting a potential upside of 12.27%. Given Service Co. International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Service Co. International is more favorable than Graham.
In the previous week, Graham had 3 more articles in the media than Service Co. International. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Graham and 4 mentions for Service Co. International. Service Co. International's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Graham's score of 0.97 indicating that Service Co. International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Service Co. International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Graham. Graham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Service Co. International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Service Co. International pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Graham pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Service Co. International pays out 36.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Graham pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Service Co. International has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Service Co. International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Service Co. International has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Service Co. International has a net margin of 12.39% compared to Graham's net margin of 4.86%. Service Co. International's return on equity of 32.18% beat Graham's return on equity.
85.5% of Service Co. International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Graham shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Service Co. International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Graham shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Service Co. International received 199 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.33% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.
Summary
Service Co. International beats Graham on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GHC) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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